THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF STORIES, POEMS, & WORKS BY EDGAR ALLAN POE [Newly Illustrated}

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Now, let's move on and talk about the narrator's spirit. The word spirit, in this sense, refers to his mind.

Charles Alston, , was a Scottish botanist who wrote in one of his papers about how opium was believed to raise the spirits [mood] and relax the muscles. The narrator's spirit blandly reposes. He is not sleeping. His mind is just peacefully resting, "forgetting, or never regretting, its roses—its old agitations of myrtles and roses. The myrtles and roses refer to his agitations. The rose connection is obvious. A thorn is something that causes discomfort.

The word myrtle comes from Greek myrrha myrrh , which comes from Arabic murr, meaning "was bitter. What was meant by this word is uncertain. It has been thought to be the chestnut, mastich, stacte, balsam, turpentine, pistachio nut, or the lotus. It is probably correctly rendered by the Latin word ladanum, the Arabic ladan, an aromatic juice of a shrub called the Cistus or rock rose, which has the same qualities, though in a slight degree, of opium, whence a decoction of opium is called laudanum. This plant was indigenous to Syria and Arabia. The narrator's spirit mind imagines a holier spiritually pure odor about it.

The odor of pansies, rosemary, and rue is mentioned. Rosemary is also a symbol of remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. The phrase "'herb of grace' o' Sundays" is tied to the name Annie. Annie is a form of Anna.

Anna comes from Hannah. Hannah has a Hebrew origin, meaning "grace. The name Hannah was common among the Puritans in the 16th and 17th centuries. This is another reference to the spiritual. There is no such thing as a Puritan pansy. I will write more about the word Puritan shortly. So what does all this talk about remembrance mean? Well, he is an addict so we know he has "fancied a holier odor" before. And now, his mind is peacefully resting, too consumed with these familiar visions to care about his old agitations.

Simply, he is really high, and he feels really good. Let's talk about how that stanza is connected with this one eleventh.

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The pleasant scents the narrator imagines are the holy odors of "Annie. It is the peak of the narrator's high just before he falls asleep. The laudanum has completely taken over his mind: Remember, it is a reference to the spiritual. Puritan is just referring to purity, or purify.

The word purity comes from late Latin puritas, which comes from Latin purus, meaning "pure. This pertains to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary.

Virgin Mary is mentioned later in the poem. This feast celebrates Mary submitting herself to the Temple for ritual purification. To complete the purification, Joseph and Mary gave Jesus to the Temple for his "redemption. The ninth stanza says: The narrator at this point falls asleep. These next two stanzas twelfth and thirteenth are fascinating.

They are written in the past tense, and the narrator no longer mentions his spirit. Is this a mistake? It certainly is not. This is the most clever part of the poem. Let's look at it like this: He wakes up, and his first thoughts are: This is what he is thinking when he wakes up: Look at how the poem says "gently" to sleep "on" then "deeply" to sleep "from. From the heaven of her breast. Sleeping "When the light was extinguished, she covered me warm. He feels as if he is wrapped in a blanket.

His ritual purification is over. The queen of the angels Queen of Heaven is Virgin Mary. Now, we are at the fourteenth stanza. This is a variation of the third. He is resting contentedly. He is satisfied now because he has gotten his love, his desire, his Passion, his "Annie. He is holding the bottle of laudanum to his chest. Well, someone has just walked into his room.

They are staring at him, thinking him dead. But he is not dead fifteenth stanza: The drug gives the narrator a feeling of absolute happiness—a heavenly bliss. He is happy and satisfied at the end of the poem because he got what he desired. He is grateful he got his "Annie. When he is with "Annie," he is in Heaven. When he is not with "Annie," he descends into the Underworld, feverishly searching for "her.

The narrator ingests laudanum. His withdrawal symptoms cease. He reaches the peak of his high Annie. Someone walks into his room and thinks he is dead because he is not moving. But he is not dead. He is thinking of the laudanum vision he had just before he fell asleep. I want to mention something about the twelfth stanza.

The sculpture does not show any signs of suffering The Passion on his face. In fact, Jesus looks more like he is peacefully sleeping.

This could have been where Poe got the idea of "Annie" holding the narrator who appears to be dead. The fourteenth stanza could have been influenced by Coleridge's introduction to "Kubla Khan. This is similar to someone walking in the room and thinking he is dead. One significant change is the phrase "Glory accurst. This is interesting because the word laudanum either comes from Latin ladanum, meaning "a gum resin," or it comes from Latin laudere, meaning "to praise.

Remember the letter Coleridge wrote to his brother: This might have been another reference to the Phlegethon river. Also, the word phlegethon lowercase can mean a fiery light. There is a prayer that one prays while burning a blessed candle. These candles help keep troubles away. Jesus Christ a King of Glory has come in Peace. The narrator suffered from withdrawal symptoms. The narrator appears to be dead. Christ rose from the dead. The narrator is not dead. Christ ascended into Heaven. The narrator's mind ascends to Heaven.

The narrator's crisis is conquered. Have mercy on us. But the narrator has fallen from grace. We know what's going to happen next. So, again, what is this poem about? Dec 26, Reginald Span rated it it was amazing. Awesome way to question one's sanity. She rolls through and ether of sighs-- She revels in a region of sighs: She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies-- To the Lethean peace of the skies-- Come up, in despite of the Lion To shine on us with her bright eyes-- Come up through the lair of the Lion, With love in her luminous eye POEMS "Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn And I said: She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies-- To the Lethean peace of the skies-- Come up, in despite of the Lion To shine on us with her bright eyes-- Come up through the lair of the Lion, With love in her luminous eyes.

The wave--there is a movement there! As if the towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide-- As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven.

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The waves have now a redder glow-- The hours are breathing faint and low-- And when, amid no earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence. For the heart whose woes are legion 'Tis a peaceful, soothing region-- For the spirit that walks in shadow 'Tis--oh, 'tis an Eldorado! But the traveller, travelling through it, May not--dare not openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed; So wills its King, who hath forbid The uplifting of the fringed lid; And thus the sad Soul that here passes Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

When the Hours flew brightly by And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did guide to thine and thee; Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast Darkly my Present and my Past, Let my Future radiant shine With sweet hopes of thee and thine! Being every thing which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not.

So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be and endless theme of praise And love--a simple duty. I cannot feel; for 'tis not feeling, This standing motionless upon the golden Threshold of the wide-open gate of dreams, Gazing, entranced, adown the gorgeous vista, And thrilling as I see, upon the right, Upon the left, and all the way along, Amid unpurpled vapors, far away To where the prospect terminates-- thee only. Out--out are the lights--out all! And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragey "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes--die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave.

And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and many centuries shall pass away, ere these memorials be seen of men. Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art. These books make elegant additions to any home library. Don Quixote Mobi Classics. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Zombie Games Uncut Boxed Set.

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A very thick and heavy book. Not a book tho throw in your purse! But this is what I was looking for. If the stories had been presented chronologically, I'd have given it five stars. Great footnotes, providing much needed context for Poe's obscure and often foreign terminology.

One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. There's a sense in which I agree more or less with all of the preceding reviews, despite their wide divergence. Poe himself--one of the most erudite and gifted of all writers--needs no further critique or literary assessment. But a few additional observations about this publication are warranted.

The volume is in need of a cover-to-cover editorial overhaul! Scarcely a page can be found that doesn't have at least one inexcusable and egregious spelling error, e. Admittedly the latter misspelling of a pagan god could not have been detected by any available software--but shouldn't the editor have caught and prevented it? Was the volume proofread at all? The footnotes are immensely valuable, shedding light on almost all of Poe's learned references to works of antiquity, classical and obscure authors and artists, and the various and sundry arcana of which he was master.

But there again, oddities leave one scratching one's head. Why do footnotes also contain so many misprints, e. Why does the numbering scheme sometimes go awry, e. These are minor complaints, but they testify to a want of editorial attention. And one additional minor annoyance: I would probably have awarded the book only 3 stars but for its very helpful footnotes and annotations. Elvin Ortiz Top Contributor: This is the most comprehensive book I've seen on Edgar Allan Poe.

It is comfortable to read because it has the proper annotations and an introduction, which makes its texts accessible. I remember that as a child, the use of Greek and Latin in these texts, scared me off from Poe. There are only a couple of things that slightly bothered me about this text: When I saw "Illustrated" I was expecting something similar to what you see in illustrated texts: Nevertheless, I can't consider this last flaw troublesome because Poe was so detailed that one doesn't need that many pictures although I confess that in the case of The Raven the illustrations were very helpful to grasp the mood to be able to visualize the "Murder in the Rue Morgue" or the facts in the "Mystery of Marie Roget.

Yet, this text is worth the price. I also like the fact that the editor clarifies several myths about Edgar Allan Poe, myths that I have always heard about him since a child. This is a great book about Poe and his oeuvre. Poe has always fascinated me for some very strange reason, and now Mr. There are plenty of books on Poe's work but this one not only has illustrations but footnotes at the bottom of the pages helping the readers interpret some of the words and phrases of Poe's time. Before the author signed this book he asks "Do you know Poe?

If you are in the market for one of the most complete books on such a very underrated person of his time Poe died poor then this collection is the one to pick up. I recieved this book free from goodreads in exchange for a review. See all 8 reviews. Most recent customer reviews.

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